Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city-owned red station wagon parked outside his home. A second blast, 33 minutes later and eight miles away, blew in the glass front of an office building housing Little Rock Mayor Werner C. Knoop's construction firm. Five minutes later dynamite thrown through a ground-floor window partially wrecked the Little Rock school district's administrative offices, blew out windows in a nearby Carmelite monastery where 14 nuns were asleep...
...about any rough stuff during the arrests, Capin denied beating anyone. At this point, a Turkish civilian, Sureya Eslek, on trial with the Americans, leaped to his feet and called Capin a liar, crying, "I was beaten!" After testifying that he "watched" one illegal exchange of currency through a window, which reporters subsequently discovered to be opaque, Policeman Capin grumpily sat down, spent the rest of the day glaring at Defendant Eslek and opening and closing his fist in a way that inexorably drew the prisoners' attention to his giant signet ring...
...northern Ungava district to Schefferville (pop. 1,630, an iron-mine company town). Relaxed and joking, the premier and friends toured the great, red-dust-laden, open-pit ore mine. During a break. Duplessis and a companion chatted in an office building. The premier was idly looking out a window when he wheeled unsteadily toward his companion with a wordless appeal in his eyes, obviously ill. Plagued for years with diabetes, he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, the first of four that were to strike him in 24 hours. This week Premier Duplessis was dead...
...denounced Thompson as an enemy to labor, Thompson began getting threatening telephone calls, finally reported them to the FBI. Driving to the Capitol one morning last week. Thompson was stopped at a red light when a green Ford truck pulled up next to him. A man leaned out the window, pointed a rubber syringe at Thompson, squirted a stream of liquid. Only bad aim saved Frank Thompson from serious injury: the liquid was sulphuric acid, and the little that did hit Thompson burned a hole through his shirt, raised a blister...
...plus-eight, the battle still hammering in the outskirts, the British doctors got their last breath of hope when they looked out of an attic window across the eight flat miles that separated them from the main body of Montgomery's bogged-down army. They saw "an almost continuous line of flashes that illuminated the horizon like footlights." Said one surgeon: "Monty always begins his attacks this way. They should reach here tomorrow." Another replied: "About bloody time, too." Next day all was still. The barrage was a final concentration to cover the last retreat of ist Airborne...